Pre-processing scaling of an imported image please
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:51 am
Could you consider having the Import Image facility have a third panel, as well as Image and Glyph please.
The purpose of this panel would be to scale the imported image before the grid to vector processing takes place.
This suggestion arises because of the following phenomenon, which is here explained using the image of text from the following page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jenson
The image can be downloaded to local storage.
It can then be imported into FontCreator and the image converted to contours.
The result is not very good.
However, clicking on the image on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jenson page leads to the following page, from where a high resolution version of the same image can be downloaded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jens ... ertius.png
Importing that image into FontCreator gives much better results.
Now if one opens Microsoft Paint and loads the original image from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jenson page and then saves as a file with a different name and then uses Image Stretch/Skew... and stretches by 400% horizontal and by 400% vertical and then saves and then imports that image into FontCreator then the results are much better than from the original image and are indeed closer to the results of using the higher resolution image.
It appears that scaling of the imported image prior to grid to vector processing by FontCreator improves the result.
Could you possibly look into this matter please and, if you think it desirable, add a facility into FontCreator so that the image can be pre-processing scaled as part of the Import Image... facility so that a separate stage using the Microsoft Paint program is not necessary.
Such a facility would be very useful if one is importing images of individual characters as it would remove the need to use the Microsoft Paint stage for each character.
For the example used in the above explanation, a high-resolution version of the image is available, yet a high resolution version is not always available for other texts.
William Overington
3 June 2008
The purpose of this panel would be to scale the imported image before the grid to vector processing takes place.
This suggestion arises because of the following phenomenon, which is here explained using the image of text from the following page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jenson
The image can be downloaded to local storage.
It can then be imported into FontCreator and the image converted to contours.
The result is not very good.
However, clicking on the image on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jenson page leads to the following page, from where a high resolution version of the same image can be downloaded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jens ... ertius.png
Importing that image into FontCreator gives much better results.
Now if one opens Microsoft Paint and loads the original image from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jenson page and then saves as a file with a different name and then uses Image Stretch/Skew... and stretches by 400% horizontal and by 400% vertical and then saves and then imports that image into FontCreator then the results are much better than from the original image and are indeed closer to the results of using the higher resolution image.
It appears that scaling of the imported image prior to grid to vector processing by FontCreator improves the result.
Could you possibly look into this matter please and, if you think it desirable, add a facility into FontCreator so that the image can be pre-processing scaled as part of the Import Image... facility so that a separate stage using the Microsoft Paint program is not necessary.
Such a facility would be very useful if one is importing images of individual characters as it would remove the need to use the Microsoft Paint stage for each character.
For the example used in the above explanation, a high-resolution version of the image is available, yet a high resolution version is not always available for other texts.
William Overington
3 June 2008